Of course you would say that, you have a vested interest in this.
[Of course you would say that, you have a vested interest in this.]
Not so much. I have a girlfriend whom I met at a McDonalds in Saint Petersburg. Like Romanov, I speak excellent Russian and can meet people fairly easily. But there are extremely high quality women on these websites, much higher quality than anyone I ever met on Match.com or Yahoo in the USA: although I didn't do badly meeting some cool American women on those sites in 2003 when I lived in California.
In Eastern Europe and other parts of the world, unmarried women 18-29 live with their parents and the parents, not knowing anything about American style paranoia, welcome suitors who just knock on the door during daylight hours. The Internet has changed the tradition slightly, but many women still do not have Internet. Lawmakers in the USA not only know nothing about traditions and attitudes in other countries...they simply don't have any business even talking about this.
You have no idea how slimy it is to even imagine that I am arguing with an American female about this issue. I feel like I have to take a shower now.
There will be no argument about this. It is unconstitutional, it will be overturned, the law will be broken or flouted, gotten around, etc. You cannot tell me that I need to sign US government forms in order to meet another adult.
What is dangerous for Republicans is that I just learned that one of the two senators that sponsored this law was a Republican...and I've learned tonight that Democrat males are organizing about this with an emphasis on blaming Bush for signing this law.
Most Republican males will agree with me that the Democrat males have every reason to be pissed that Bush signed this law.
If this gets momentum, which it should, there might be some political realignment on its way.
Don't we all have a vested interest in being allowed to communicate to whomever we please?